Rick Perry would send US troops back to Iraq

Texas Gov. Rick "bang bang" Perry said he “would send troops back into Iraq” at the GOP presidential debate in Manchester, NH.

With American forces out the country, Perry said, Iran would take over Iraq, “literally at the speed of light.”

The last American troops left Iraq before Christmas, after eight years of war that cost the lives of 4,400 U.S. troops and between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in lost economic output.